Chapter 1958: The Desperate Path of Mo Beichen
The last two Nanming Divine Sources could still sustain his Divine Embers state for barely four breaths of time.
And even if that time could be extended tenfold or a hundredfold, his body was already utterly incapable of holding on.
Every inch of Yun Che's body was now without a single undamaged spot. With his current physical condition, if it were anyone else under heaven, they would have long since perished.
The final Solid Rock Formation was being devoured bit by bit, but to completely shatter it within four breaths... at this point, it was already impossible.
His tightly clenched teeth loosened, and the frenzy in his pitch-black eyes gradually turned into a deep, dark pool.
Qingyue... I truly wanted to give everything to cherish what you left me.
But in the end, I...
His Evil God's Mysterious Vein began to tremble violently, gradually revealing streaks of bloody patterns.
Sacrifice my blood body... Other Shore Asura!
Back then in the Star God Realm, in order to save Mo Li, he had driven himself to death and transformed into an Other Shore Asura... and in the end, because of the Phoenix's Nirvana power, he was reborn incomplete.
But this time, the moment he transformed into an Asura again, he was destined for death with no chance of survival.
Just as the forbidden power of the Evil God was about to erupt in absolute resolve, a dazzling golden light of infinite intensity entered his pupils, and directly pierced his soul, dyeing everything in the world and within his soul into a pure red-gold hue.
In his ears was a crow's cry that resounded through the heavens, unmatched in the world.
The cry of a Golden Crow, Yun Che was more than familiar with it.
But this cry, with its power, its momentum, its sharpness... surpassed all he had ever heard in his life.
Even the Golden Crow blood within his body boiled wildly in that instant.
Without turning his head, a golden crow shadow that blotted out the sky was reflected in Yun Che's sea of consciousness.
The Tai Chu Divine Realm, all beings looked up.
The endless firmament held only that world-shaking crow shadow.
Its spread golden wings scorched the space, leaving a long golden trail behind, and in a suddenly piercing and tragic shriek, it dove straight down toward Mo Beichen.
...
The Vermilion Bird, the Phoenix, and the Golden Crow were the three supreme fire entities of ancient times.
And each of them possessed a final flame that could only be burned once in a lifetime:
The Vermilion Bird's Redemption;
The Phoenix's Nirvana;
The Golden Crow's Jade Shattering!
The Redemption flame and the Nirvana flame both ignite after the Vermilion Bird and Phoenix perish, but the Golden Crow is different.
With the most violent flames and the most unyielding temperament, the Golden Crow's ultimate flame is a flame of death, burning oneself in a decisive death.
Better to be a shattered jade than an intact tile.
The Vermilion Bird's Redemption flame had been eternally lost, never to appear again.
The Phoenix's Nirvana flame had once burned on Yun Che's body, but that was by no means because his Phoenix bloodline and Phoenix soul were sufficiently "complete"; it was an extra gift from the Phoenix's soul. Thus, it was extremely weak and incomplete. After burning, although it indeed achieved rebirth, it only barely managed to hold onto a thread of residual life.
Feng Xue'er, who could truly burn the Nirvana flame, had already burned it out prematurely to save Yun Che back then.
Thus, even though she possessed a complete Phoenix inheritance, after her jade-like fall, she could no longer be reborn through Nirvana.
In other words, the Nirvana flame was also eternally lost.
The only remaining divine flame of the three ancient supreme fire entities, imprinted in the Golden Crow bloodline of Huo Poyun, remained.
And at this moment, within countless pupils stained gold, it burned with absolute resolve and no regrets.
...
The entire world now held only the Golden Crow's final cry and the golden flame light.
Even Yun Che's Golden Crow Phantom God was completely submerged.
The divine might that came crashing down surpassed the demigod Mo Beichen, surpassed the Canglan Eternity-Ending Cang Shitian, surpassed Yun Che under his Divine Embers.
In the world covered by the golden flame, no one could see Huo Poyun's figure. Everyone's consciousness was telling them with absolute certainty: this was the manifestation and divine cry of the ancient Golden Crow True God!
Mo Beichen stared blankly as the golden crow shadow, as if from an ancient illusion, grew closer and closer. His pupils had dilated to their maximum, and his mouth hung open unconsciously.
But even as the golden crow shadow engulfed his entire field of vision, he could not make a single sound.
Because accompanying the golden flame light was a soul pressure that utterly crushed his soul.
Boom————
The crow shadow crashed down. Amid a resounding cry of infinite power and infinite sorrow, the Jade Shattering flame burst into a roaring inferno centered on Mo Beichen's body.
In the world, there was nothing left but golden flames.
Outside the battlefield, everyone was completely stunned and lost their souls. Because what they saw in their vision was truly...
A blazing sun falling to the earth!
But few knew that beneath this scene of the sun's fall was the eternal disappearance of a Golden Crow divine miracle, and the eternal fall of a peerless genius with an endless future.
"Waaaahhh!"
"Hah... hahahahaha!"
The Jade Shattering flame burned Mo Beichen and Cang Shitian, eliciting anguished screams and delighted laughter.
But it would not harm Yun Che in the slightest.
Within the golden sea of fire, the Solid Rock Formation on Mo Beichen's body melted like ice under the scorching sun at a visible rate.
The crack under the tip of the Heaven's Calamity Sword was spreading wildly amidst the trembling.
Zheng!
Another Nanming Divine Source collapsed.
Only the last Nanming Divine Source remained to sustain his final Divine Embers power.
His spirit and power condensed to their utmost, Yun Che's eyes burst with countless blood streaks. He bit down and shattered every single one of his teeth in an instant, letting out a howl like a desperate demon.
Miracles could breed miracles...
His already exhausted and collapsing ruined body once again surged with power... that was almost more violent than any moment before.
"Die!"
"Die!!"
"Die!!!"
A long-silent corner of his soul was reignited by the Jade Shattering flame that Huo Poyun had burned with his life.
He roared until his voice was hoarse.
The Heaven's Calamity Demon Emperor Sword stabbed fiercely into Mo Beichen's heart with extreme fury.
Cang Shitian's remnant body was also rapidly being incinerated, but his power still firmly bound Mo Beichen, preventing him from escaping Yun Che's power, and from escaping the sea of fire.
Yun Che's Divine Embers power, Cang Shitian's deathly seal, Huo Poyun's Jade Shattering flame...
Bang—
Finally, with a hum muffled by the sea of fire, the layer upon layer burned Solid Rock Formation shattered and scattered under Yun Che's sword.
The images in Yun Che's pupils suddenly became extremely slow. He could clearly see each sliver of the formation's dying light as it shattered and flew.
That was Mo Beichen's final glimmer of a dead end. Yet it was the radiance of a miracle that had truly shone after their countless desperate situations, despair, and near-death experiences...
Mo Beichen's fully mobilized power was all concentrated on the Solid Rock Formation, leaving no strength to protect his body.
The shattering of the final Solid Rock Formation was the complete collapse of his defensive power.
The shattered Solid Rock Formation struck Mo Beichen's chest and abdomen, sinking them inward. His eyeballs bulged, and the images in his vision also became extremely slow... He watched helplessly as the sword tip burning with black flames pierced through the broken dying light and stabbed into his heart...
Straight through.
From the tip to the blade... until the entire massive sword body.
Finally, what collided with his vision was Yun Che's pitch-black pupils boiling with raging demonic light.
The Heaven's Calamity Demon Emperor Sword completely pierced through Mo Beichen's body, and also pieced through Cang Shitian, who was tightly bound to him.
"He Ling!"
In Yun Che's sea of consciousness, his soul-shredding roar exploded.
In fact, there was no need for his howl.
All the thoughts He Ling had tightly condensed were waiting for this moment.
The instant the Heaven's Calamity Sword pierced through Mo Beichen, a girl's shadow appeared soundlessly.
She was as beautiful as an elf, with emerald green hair and jade-colored eyes. Around her was a flame light that completely swallowed heaven and earth, yet her figure was exceptionally clear.
Her expression was serene and sacred. Her hands crossed over her chest, and her emerald eyes slowly closed... As she stretched out her jade-like arms, a dense, pure, and extreme emerald green light burst from the Heaven's Calamity Sword...
And also exploded within Mo Beichen's internal organs.
With his mind in extreme shock and his power scattered, and with the explosion originating from inside his body... even as a demigod, Mo Beichen had no way to block it.
The emerald green light turned into countless venomous snakes eager to devour everything, rapidly scurrying toward his internal organs, flesh and bones, profound veins, blood...
By the time Mo Beichen's heart and soul recovered and his power turned back, the emerald green light had already spread to every single strand of hair and every corner of his body.
It turned his pupils, which had been dyed gold a moment ago, into a deep and terrifying green.
"Ah... aah..."
It was as if millions or tens of millions of venomous snakes were cruelly gnawing inside his body. His five viscera and six bowels, his limbs, all convulsed violently. His entire body twisted and contorted wildly in the extreme agony and terror that erupted violently. The surface of his body was rapidly stained with an increasingly deep green.
"Ah... ah... aah... no... no..."
His cries were not shrill, but extremely hoarse and pained... as though his throat had also been tightly strangled by thousands of venomous snakes.
Beyond the pain, there was also profound fear.
Because his equally agonized and twisted soul clearly touched upon death.
Even the desperate situations deep in the Mist Sea and the death trials of the Pure Land... he had never perceived the approach of death so vividly.
"Ha... hah..."
Death was not only clearly touching Mo Beichen, but also Cang Shitian.
But what he let out was a weak, yet regretless low laugh.
The Canglan divine power that had been carried on his existence also dissipated at this moment as his will relaxed.
His deep blue remnant body could no longer maintain its binding on Mo Beichen, and as the blue light dispersed, it toppled backward.
Chi Wuyue's demonic soul had been heavily damaged, but she had never withdrawn her spiritual sense. Amidst the battlefield filled with demigod power, her powerful Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul had always clearly perceived everything.
Under the submersion of the golden sea of fire, she could not see the battlefield clearly, but she could clearly sense the relaxation of Cang Shitian's final consciousness, and the soul howl of Mo Beichen that was suddenly filled with pain and despair.
She knew that Yun Che had succeeded.
She also knew that the most frenzied and terrifying moment of a hyena was when it was cornered.
"Meiyin, quickly teleport Yun Che back!"
She sent an urgent soul voice to Shui Meiyin... and at almost the same moment, the Cosmic Thorn in Shui Meiyin's hand began to glow with a crimson divine light.
But, though it had long been ready to strike, the crimson divine light did not immediately release. Shui Meiyin concentrated all her spirit, and in her soul was Chi Wuyue's call, yet she still could not act.
That was a calamitous space boiling with demigod power. A power that this world could not withstand was violently distorting space, force fields, vision, perception, and even laws.
Coupled with the fact that she was far too distant from Yun Che, she could not accurately lock onto Yun Che's spatial position in a short time.
"Ah... aah... ah..."
Mo Beichen's screams grew more and more agonizing. As a Guardian Knight, his body originally had strong resistance against poison and filth.
But no matter how wildly his guardian power surged, he could not dispel the terrifying green light scurrying within his body.
Because it was the ultimate heavenly poison released from the Heavenly Poison Pearl.
His body seemed to be falling into an endless abyss. The deeper and heavier the despair, the more it ignited a reckless madness.
"Ah... ugh... aah!!"
After the pained groans, there was a heart-rending roar. The remaining power within Mo Beichen's body no longer tried to dispel the heavenly poison, but erupted violently...
Boom——
The weakening sea of fire was blasted open into a huge hole.
Within the hole, Cang Shitian's deep blue remnant body shattered into pieces, and then was crushed into countless blue dust...
Like dying stars in the sky under the dawn light.
Yun Che's remaining clarity made him channel his last Divine Embers power to protect himself.
In the loud sound, he was sent flying backward at a speed that tore through space, as if struck by a heavenly hammer...
In his soul, he heard Cang Shitian's voice:
"Please... take good care... of Shu... Hong..."
The soul voice faded, the star of Cang finally fell.
His final words were not hearty laughter, not cathartic roars, not heroic declarations that would be remembered for a thousand autumns... but only a request filled with endless concern.